Refreshing our faulty memory: Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir go hand in hand
One of the main and often forgotten blunders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), during their different stints in power, is the sell-out of the hopes and aspirations of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan....
View ArticleWhy MQM wants Dr Ishratul Ebad to resign
The demand by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Farooq Sattar for Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad to resign is just another proof that the political parties, and in this case the MQM, don’t...
View ArticleRussia: The one country the US cannot bully
This week US Foreign Secretary John Kerry met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russian Black Sea resort, Sochi – the same place where the Winter...
View ArticleThe myth of vote in Imran Khan’s K-P local bodies election
Pakistan’s north-western province, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is ruled by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that has been fighting its election campaign promising ‘change’ and ‘real democracy’....
View ArticleDoes Nawaz Sharif even care about Sindh and its people?
The outcome of the visit of our Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, to Karachi has been disappointing. There is an obvious crisis of governance in the province of Sindh where the provincial government and...
View ArticleWhat Pakistan can learn from the Iran nuclear deal
After 13 years of struggling and negotiating, a deal has finally been concluded between Iran and the West that rightfully is called ‘historical’. The main bone of contention has been the Western fear...
View ArticleOur blood runs thick, our blood runs green
September 6th is celebrated as Defence Day in Pakistan. It was on this day that India launched an attack on Pakistan back in 1965. Only a couple of months after launching Operation Gibraltar in...
View ArticleHydrogen bomb or not, North Korea is still dangerous
Whether the North Korean nuclear test was that of a Hydrogen bomb or was ‘just’ a conventional nuclear test is not the main issue. The fact is that nuclear tests that pose a significant danger to the...
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